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Patents come to computer gaming

Patents: in a recent discussion about games and patents, it emerged that these common elements are patented:

Looks like software patenting is coming to computer games in a big way. I’m not sure how any game on a modern platform can avoid the ‘streamed loading’ patent.

Naturally, I can remember playing games on the Commodore 64 in the 1980s that included these…